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Date:      Mon, 21 Jan 2013 15:22:38 +0100
From:      "Ralf Mardorf" <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com>
To:        "David Demelier" <demelier.david@gmail.com>, "Andriy Gapon" <avg@freebsd.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD multi <freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD quest <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Oliver Lehmann <oliver@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: OSS and ALSA
Message-ID:  <op.wq9l70seuwjkcr@freebsd>
In-Reply-To: <50FD4E38.5040305@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <op.wq9bwjmruwjkcr@freebsd> <CAO%2BPfDfnGnxxxmRFJ=R75-jrYi2wOtJ0onGS6PJwhxrjWemtPQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAO%2BPfDeZ9MopA32BfUoq9i9PBgJK_s=sP0ctN=yZGkBA-OTERA@mail.gmail.com> <50FD4E38.5040305@FreeBSD.org>

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On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 15:18:32 +0100, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> wrote:

> on 21/01/2013 14:22 David Demelier said the following:
>> I mean audacious, not VLC
>>
>>
>> 2013/1/21 David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com>
>>
>>> Don't enable OSS4 nor ALSA, VLC can run fine with FreeBSD kernel mixer
>>> support (that has a OSS compatibility support).
>>>
>>> Just use defaults, it will always work more when you use default  
>>> options.
>
> Are you sure?  And are you speaking about the latest version - 3.3.3 ?
>
> In that version, if neither ALSA nor OSS4 is selected then the only  
> output
> possible is FileWriter.  BTW, OSS4 is "On" by default, which is annoying  
> - why do
> I have install some external kernel code if we already have quite good  
> audio code.
>
> It seems that audacious has lost support for "normal OSS" and became  
> useless to
> me.  Maybe "SDL Output" plugin/option could help, I need to try that.

I'm a FreeBSD beginner and I noticed that I can forget my Linux knowledge  
for FreeBSD audio. It would be nice to get some valid information for  
FreeBSD 9.1 amd64. Google isn't very helpful.


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